The Scorpion Stings relates a family’s exploits while living in Iran whre they witnessed war, earthquakes, riots and assassination. A U.S. Army captain takes his pregnant wife and three year old son with him on their first overseas assignment. Shah Mohammad Reza Palavi is in power and is dragging his country into the 20th Century. He mandates that women should give up the veil and get an education; that the mullahs and wealthy families give their lands to the peasants; that the tribal nomads give up their weapons and take up farming. It is 1963 and he called the decree the White Revolution because it was intended to be bloodless. It was not! It only caused the rise of a charisamatic mullah named Ruhollah Khomeini. Against this chaotic backg